Internet Security and Saving

alison6692

Thanks for this debeast! Man will be so pleased when he gets home and see's my technical wizardry skills
;D

aycor

:-[
help
before reading your excellent advice I down loaded a progam called internet washer which I cannot remove without  giving credit card details( which I do not want to do and it keeps popping up when I start up the system can some one suggest a way to remove it
I have windows xp and have  avg, ad -aware, and spybot and cannot find it on these
help

debeast

:-[
help
before reading your excellent advice I down loaded a progam called internet washer which I cannot remove without  giving credit card details( which I do not want to do and it keeps popping up when I start up the system can some one suggest a way to remove it
I have windows xp and have  avg, ad -aware, and spybot and cannot find it on these
help

check your msgs :-)

Ebenezer_Screwj

Have only just picked up on this post but better late than never. All four installed and working well. Virus in e-mail attachment detected and destroyed one day after installation. Many thanks.

rach

can someone help me with info for my friend? she's just bought a Mac i-book and when i asked if she had any A-V software or a firewall she said 'oh, you don;t need them for macs as no one bothers to write virus' etc for them.'  sounds a bit dodgy to me - is this correct and if not what should i recommend she uses (pref free!)

would hate to see her have probs on a machine shes just spent a fortune on!!!

cheers - Rach

debeast

can someone help me with info for my friend? she's just bought a Mac i-book and when i asked if she had any A-V software or a firewall she said 'oh, you don;t need them for macs as no one bothers to write virus' etc for them.'  sounds a bit dodgy to me - is this correct and if not what should i recommend she uses (pref free!)

would hate to see her have probs on a machine shes just spent a fortune on!!!

cheers - Rach

it is true that 99% of virus and exploits are for PC's and not macs


so the chances are that she is correct that she'll probably never get a virus. There just isn't enuff incentive for anyone to write one :-)

not sure about free stuff for macs but start with a search at tucows.com then zdnet.com

hope that helps

debeastie

rebus_2

;D Olla!
Can anyone please help ??? Spyware and po-ups are driving me MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have downloaded AD_AWARE and was agast when, after my last sesh on the net i ran a scan and found 15, YES 15!
this has helped no end, but I'm still being "bugged" by pop-ups, and, worryingly, on supposedly "SECURE" sites, like my bank!!!
Can you help? (I'm still quite new to the whole internet thingy and need something quite "User friendly"
Thanks,
Rebus ::)

LincsLad_3

The google toolbar has an excellent popup stopper.

http://toolbar.google.com/

System

:-[
help
before reading your excellent advice I down loaded a progam called internet washer which I cannot remove without  giving credit card details( which I do not want to do and it keeps popping up when I start up the system can some one suggest a way to remove it
I have windows xp and have  avg, ad -aware, and spybot and cannot find it on these
help

Have you managed to get rid of the program?

debeast

;D Olla!
Can anyone please help ??? Spyware and po-ups are driving me MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have downloaded AD_AWARE and was agast when, after my last sesh on the net i ran a scan and found 15, YES 15!
this has helped no end, but I'm still being "bugged" by pop-ups, and, worryingly, on supposedly "SECURE" sites, like my bank!!!
Can you help? (I'm still quite new to the whole internet thingy and need something quite "User friendly"
Thanks,
Rebus ::)

Goto tucows.com or zdnet.com and have a look in their downloads section for pop up blockers. They have a few free ones

With the other 4 programs i've highlighted you should be completely covered.


p.s. don't forget to vote for this as post of the month, link is on 1st post LOL